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Siyakha loses battle as M-Net announce their Top 10. PICTURE: Web ON Sunday Mzansi Magic announced their Top 10 Idols: South Africa contestants and hopeful Siyakha Tshayela's lack of honest disclosure found her exempt from the show just days before this revelation. According to a statement released by the channel's PR head for local entertainment Nondumiso Mabece, the case which found Tshayela, t he "Gauteng High Court has concluded that Idols and M-Net were entitled to exclude Ms. Siyakha Tshayela from the “Top 16” round of Idols". "Ms. Tshayela had asked the court on Saturday evening (17 September 2016) to allow her to participate in the Top 16 round despite not complying with one of the significant rules of the competition: that she be able to sign an exclusive recording deal with a label identified by Idols," stated the release.  The channel sites that Tshayela's court application failed and was then withdrawn from the show  as a c...

Siyakha Tshayela is withdrawn from Idols. PICTURE: MNET/IDOLS IDOLS: SOUTH AFRICA contestent Siyakha Tshayela has been withdrawn from the 2016 season of the show with effect from 15th September 2016 as a result of a dispute between herself and an independent recording company. In a statement released by MNET head of publicity for local channels Nondumiso Mabece on Thursday evening, "p articipants are required to sign an exclusive recording deal with the Idols-appointed recording label when they enter the series". "On the 1 st of August, Ms. Tshayela informed us that she had entered into discussions with an independent recording company before entering Idols, but she maintained there was no contract in place. The recording company insists there is," reads the statement.  According to the channel, discussions have been held with all the affected parties since then, but there is still no resolution for the hopeful singer who impressed many with her...